What psychiatrists and political scientists can learn from one another

ANY treatise which adequately depicts the present state of modern psychiatry shows that psychiatry is far more than an exhaustive inventory of symptoms. No matter how much time is devoted to the description of individual disease entities, there is abundant indication of deliberate effort to bring the processes of mental disease into intelligible relationship to the course of development of the personality as a whole. It is less and less true that the psychiatrist speaks of human personality as the hazy corona which surrounds the syndromes. The structure of personality is discussed in direct relationship to the setting in which it operates.